Meet your licensed English-speaking guide, who grew up shopping at this market. They know the real price of everything – from a kilogram of cashmere to a hand-painted Mongol zurag to a set of horse saddle straps.

Explore the market with your guide, who will help you avoid being overcharged. Vendors see a foreign face and the price doubles or triples instantly. You have no way of knowing what a cashmere scarf, a traditional deel, or a pair of leather boots should actually cost. A 50,000 MNT item becomes 150,000 MNT the moment you ask.

Your guide will also help you avoid pickpockets. The market is packed with people. Tourists with open bags, phones in back pockets, or wallets in loose jackets are targets. It happens every single day at Narantuul.